Cute, Cute, Cute!

I think my son is the cutest thing ever, and isn't that how is ought to be? A mother is always biased toward her children...hopefully! One of these days I'll begin downloading photos again so Gavin's little stories are accompanied by photographic evidence.

For the sake of not forgetting Gavin at age three, I give you some anecdotes.

• Gavin hasn't been that excited about having a new baby in the house. When we ask him if he wants the baby to be a boy or a girl he says either, "I want to be surprised" or, "It's a baby puppy." He also likes to tell me that he has puppies in his belly. But the only child syndrome aside, over the past couple of weeks he has been walking up to my stomach and saying, "I love you baby." So sweet...and hard won.


• Gavin wants to call the new baby, "Face." He thinks this is hysterical and giggles madly when he says it.


• I feel like Gavin can really communicate with us now and sometimes when he's upset he'll say, "I'm upset right now!" The other day he finished brushing his teeth and said, "Mommy, I just brushed my teeth all by myself. Are you proud of me?"


• Gavin has two obsessions: music and numbers. It makes sense because these two disciplines are closely related. He practically has a song memorized after hearing it once, and can identify different artists and instruments. For instance, he knows that Buddy Rich plays the drums. But, his favorite music is any sort of kids' praise CD, and he has hundreds of songs committed to memory. He also spends hours at his grandparents house "playing" the piano and composing songs. No joke. He has several songs in his repertiore. One night I asked him to play my favorite, called "Pretty Mommy," and he said, "Okay, Mommy, but it's going to be a while before I play it since it's song number twelve."


• The number thing is off the chain. Gavs can count to 160 with no prompting and can count backwards from 100. I'm not sure what his preschool teacher is going to think about this.

Gavin is a sweet, loving little boy and his favorite thing is to hang out with Mommy and Daddy, going to the beach and then eating Cozy Thai for lunch. I love this sweet time with him before the new baby arrives, and we're trying to create special moments with him this summer. I'm a little bit sad to have to share him, but I know life will be even richer with two. Right?